A Marble Head of Ares in the Old Archaeological Museum of Chalkis in Euboea, Greece

A Marble Head of Ares in the Old Archaeological Museum of Chalkis in Euboea, Greece

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This study engages with a marble head of Ares, currently on exhibition at the Old Archaeological Museum of Chalkis in Euboea, Greece.The head boss ga fc ex has been executed according to the finest tradition of Classical-Hellenistic Greek sculpture, creating a figure with theatrical and pathetic expressions, recalling the Skopadic trend.The lack of insulated debakey pupils may indicate that the head of the god is a pre-Hadrianic Roman copy of a Greek original from the 4th-2nd centuries BCE.